{"id":269607,"date":"2025-07-24T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=269607"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:16:43","slug":"which-of-the-following-has-more-core-electrons-than-it-does-valence-electrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/which-of-the-following-has-more-core-electrons-than-it-does-valence-electrons\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following has more core electrons than it does valence electrons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which of the following has more core electrons than it does valence electrons? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sulfur <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>carbon <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>beryllium <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>oxygen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\">The correct answer and explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>sulfur<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sulfur has more core electrons than valence electrons because its electron configuration is <strong>1s\u00b2 2s\u00b2 2p\u2076 3s\u00b2 3p\u2074<\/strong>. In this configuration, the first two electron shells (1s\u00b2 and 2s\u00b2 2p\u2076) represent the core electrons, and the third shell (3s\u00b2 3p\u2074) represents the valence electrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sulfur has a total of 16 electrons, and 10 of these are in the core shells (1s\u00b2 2s\u00b2 2p\u2076), leaving 6 electrons in the outermost shell (3s\u00b2 3p\u2074) as valence electrons. So, sulfur has <strong>10 core electrons<\/strong> and <strong>6 valence electrons<\/strong>, making the core electrons more than the valence electrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For comparison:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Carbon<\/strong> (C) has an electron configuration of <strong>1s\u00b2 2s\u00b2 2p\u00b2<\/strong>, with 2 core electrons (1s\u00b2) and 4 valence electrons (2s\u00b2 2p\u00b2). The core electrons are fewer than the valence electrons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Beryllium<\/strong> (Be) has an electron configuration of <strong>1s\u00b2 2s\u00b2<\/strong>, with 2 core electrons (1s\u00b2) and 2 valence electrons (2s\u00b2). The core and valence electrons are equal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oxygen<\/strong> (O) has an electron configuration of <strong>1s\u00b2 2s\u00b2 2p\u2074<\/strong>, with 10 core electrons (1s\u00b2 2s\u00b2 2p\u2076) and 6 valence electrons (2p\u2074). Similar to sulfur, oxygen has more core electrons than valence electrons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, <strong>sulfur<\/strong> has the highest number of core electrons compared to its valence electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the following has more core electrons than it does valence electrons? sulfur carbon beryllium oxygen The correct answer and explanation is: The correct answer is sulfur. Sulfur has more core electrons than valence electrons because its electron configuration is 1s\u00b2 2s\u00b2 2p\u2076 3s\u00b2 3p\u2074. 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